Episodes
Jan. 22, 2014
Game Changers 2014 Predictions Part 3
Looking for a crystal ball to help you predict what 2014 may bring for your business, your industry, your marketplace? We’ve got the next best thing – dozens of expert insights into the technologies, strategies, and trends th...
Jan. 15, 2014
Tech Donations Transforming NGOs and NPOs Part 2
Today’s buzz: Donations. Businesses are pressured to do the right thing via donations, especially at year-end. Giving feels good. It could feel even better all year long if your company expands its generosity to support NPOs ...
Jan. 8, 2014
GameChangers 2014 Predictions Part 2
Looking for a crystal ball to help you predict what 2014 may bring for your business? We’ve got the next best thing – more than 40 thought leaders sharing their expert insights into the technologies, strategies, and trends th...
Dec. 25, 2013
Special Encore Presentation: Tech Donations: Transforming NGOs & NPOs – Part 1
Today’s buzz: Giving. Your company is continually pressured to help locals less fortunate via cash, clothing, food, toys donations. Giving is good, right? What if you expand that generosity worldwide to effect social change b...
Dec. 18, 2013
Game-Changers 2014 Predictions – Part 1
What’s on your wish list this holiday season? If it’s a crystal ball to help you predict what 2014 may bring for your business, we’ve got the next best thing – more than 40 thought leaders sharing their expert insights into t...
Dec. 11, 2013
Enterprise Mobility for Dummies: You can run but you can't hide
Today’s buzz: Mobility. Welcome to the Mobile 2.0 world. Enterprise mobility is moving at triple-Internet speed. Adoption of BYOD and enterprise-wide B2E, B2B and C2B is disrupting traditional computing. Your company may soon...
Dec. 4, 2013
Tech Donations: Transforming NGOs & NPOs – Part 1
Today’s buzz: Giving. Your company is continually pressured to help locals less fortunate via cash, clothing, food, toys donations. Giving is good, right? What if you expand that generosity worldwide to effect social change b...
Nov. 27, 2013
Special Encore Presentation: Sports Go High-Tech: Score!
Today’s buzz: Sports. Whether you play sports or just watch, you may already be seeing the impact of an exciting new ‘player’ on the court, the field, the track, the pool, the television. Its name is technology and it’s enhan...
Nov. 20, 2013
Banking Fraud: Can Technology Outsmart the Bad Guys? – Part 2
Today’s buzz: Banking fraud. They’re smart, they’re creative, and they’re determined to make your money their money. They succeed using a recipe of new technology and old-fashioned chutzpah. Our challenge: harness the same te...
Nov. 13, 2013
The Digital Insurer: Customer Centricity Trends – Part 2
Today’s buzz: Insurance. The insurance industry is on a paper-to-digital journey that will affect every aspect of its business – especially the customer experience. Really? We can only hope they’ll finally get it right. The e...
Nov. 6, 2013
The New CFO Agenda: Tying Predictive Analytics to Financial Performance – Part 2
Today’s buzz: Predictive. IBM’s Watson beat Mensa on Jeopardy. Target knows your family. Match.com picks mates. How are they so smart? The experts speak. John Elder, Elder Research: “Humans and machines have very different st...
Oct. 30, 2013
Best-Run Cities: Urban Matters – Part 2
Today’s buzz: The city. Your city is a complex vital entity with the power to impact your local quality of life as well as national and global economies. How is your city running? Is innovation part of its DNA, spirit, budget...
Oct. 23, 2013
Compliance: Focus on Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption – Part 2
Today’s buzz: Bribery and corruption are alive and well. The global economy continues to bring great opportunities and great risks. Wherever you do business, do you have measures in place to detect and thwart clever bribery a...
Oct. 16, 2013
Corporate Responsibility: Nice or Must Have? – Part 2
Today’s buzz: Corporate responsibility (CR). How’s yours? William Newman, Newport Consulting: “Disney’s decision to pull out of Bangladesh based on the government’s slow response to the building collapse illustrates CR isn’t ...
Oct. 9, 2013
Sports Go High-Tech: Score!
Today’s buzz: Sports. Whether you play sports or just watch, you may already be seeing the impact of an exciting new ‘player’ on the court, the field, the track, the pool, the television. Its name is technology and it’s enhan...
Oct. 2, 2013
Caregiving Goes High-Tech: Benefits, Challenges, Wish List
Today’s buzz: Caregivers. In April, we discussed how technology is being developed to help 65 million U.S. caregivers, and others around the world, who provide weekly care to the ill, disabled and aged. Now, half a year later...
Sept. 25, 2013
Manufacturing Survival: Idea to Performance
Today’s buzz: Manufacturing. Reality check: manufacturers must adapt or die. Survival means automating your shop floor, deploying M2M technology, leveraging Big Data. What else? What is government’s role? The experts speak. B...
Sept. 18, 2013
Equipped to Compete: Tech-Powered SMEs
Today’s buzz: SMEs. A recent Oxford Economics study of 2,100 small to mid-size enterprises in 21 countries found that those leveraging technology to boost innovation, strengthen customer relationships, improve agility and exp...
Sept. 11, 2013
Engaging Your Customer: New Recipe for A Long Marriage
The buzz: CRM. Has your company’s CRM evolved to keep up with today’s digitally-empowered, brand-controlling customers – or is it stuck in vanilla call-center mode? If the latter, wake up! Your audience is seizing the power m...
Sept. 4, 2013
The Internet of Things and You
The buzz: Things. Your POV on The Internet of Things and M2M (machine to machine) technology: Real or vapor? Now or futuristic? Listen up! Companies that fail to implement M2M will fall behind their competitors, say a majorit...
Aug. 28, 2013
Fashion Retailer Alert: Delight Millennials or Die! – Part 2
The buzz: Millennials are here. Retailers, watch out. Tom Julian, Doneger Group: “A celeb today has more impact and influence as a player in fashion and the retailer than an award-winning young designer.” Greg Girard, IDC: Ge...
Aug. 21, 2013
Fashion Retailer Alert: Delight Millennials or Die! – Part 1
The buzz: Millennials are here. Retailers, watch out. Tom Julian, Doneger Group: “Millennials have become the most racially diverse, most educated, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat generation to date. They have impacted shopp...
Aug. 14, 2013
Board and Workforce Diversity: Enterprise Risks, Opportunities, Rewards
Today’s buzz: Diversity. Inclusion now covers race, age, gender, religion, impairments, skills, viewpoints and more. How will it benefit your company? The experts speak. Paul Albert, Albert Investments: “Outstanding women dir...
Aug. 7, 2013
The Digital Insurer: Opportunities with Customer Centricity Trends
Today’s buzz: Insurance industry. Do you gnash your teeth every time you deal with insurers? Do they even know the meaning of ‘customer experience’? The experts speak. Mark Breading, Strategy Meets Action: “The insurance indu...